A bizarre and truly gruesome video has emerged online of the moment a patient had more than 20 toothbrushes surgically removed from the their stomach, and it is unclear how the patient came to have so many toothbrushes stuffed inside his gut reports mirror.co.uk.

The original video appears to have been uploaded to YouTube by Sumesh Sukumaran on March 27 and, it has been viewed more than 12,000 times in 11 hours.